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This Love Interview – July 12, 2010

July 12, 2010 By Ben Minsky Leave a Comment

Can you please introduce yourself and your role in This Love?

My name is Joe McFaddin and I sing and play guitar in the band This Love

How did This Love get started?

Well, to make what might be a longer story short, we used to be a band called Callahan, a pop-punk act from Springfield, Ohio. But after a style and member change, (me being one of the member changes) , we decided to take on a new name and start fresh as This Love. We formed as a 5 piece and consist of former members of (Callahan) and other local bands from Dayton, Ohio.

Tell me about your new album that comes out on June 19th.

First off, you can snatch up the album The Beginning by This Love as soon as June 14th off of itunes and amazon.com <http://amazon.com> . You can grab the album (hard copy Compact disc form) at our CD release party on June 19th at the Lions club in Springfield, Ohio.

This album is our first attempt to be heard as This Love. The band and I have a lot of confidence in this EP, especially since we as a band are so new to the game. I believe that anyone who listens to this with open ears will appreciate it from front to back. We are very excited for people to hear it and to start receiving feedback.

Are you guys doing anything special/interesting/fun to promote the album?

Promoting the album is one of the funnest things we have been doing. We have been hustling our name and music to anyone that will give us a half of a second, from people pumping gas to people sitting down at a local restaurant trying to eat their dinner, hahaha. Plus, everything we have been doing with our social networks, such as, twitter, myspace, facebook. We have weekly contests and chats with all of our fans getting them pumped on our album release. We also make appearances at prime venues during prime show times and push our name and music to everyone we can. We make everyday an adventure when it comes to promotion, we want people to check us out!

Do you guys have any touring plans? Or are you currently on tour?

We are currently not on tour, as of right now we are planning out our schedule for the summer. A lot of exciting opportunities are to come!

What are some of your goals for This Love?

As of right now our main goal is to stay true to ourselves as musicians and as individuals, push our name and our music to as many listeners, in as many areas as possible. And most of all, have a blast with what we re doing and do it to the best of our abilities. We are a blessed group of kids that get to do what we love everyday.

How did you get started playing music?

I got started playing music as long ago as i can remember. Once I got into high-school, I bought my first acoustic guitar and it was all downhill from there. I caught a disease. An incurable one.

What are some of your major musical influences?

Wow, major musical influences? I wouldn’t know where to begin, but if i have to i would say, (as a band) our major influences are probably U2, Van Halen, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Third Eye Blind, The Maine, My Favorite Highway. And personally I will tell you im a sucker for blues. I love John Mayer, but you’ll always catch me listening to MJ, Stevie Ray, Robert Johnson, B.B. King. I love any music with a whole lot of feel. Never can get enough feel. But I would never be able to hit the tip of the ice burg when it comes to all of our influences.

What has been the biggest accomplishment for This Love?

We have accomplished soooo much already for being such a new band. But that is something I don’t personally like talking about at this point in time. We are ready for the future, because the accomplishments ahead are much more important.

Any last words for our readers?

AHH, last words, my favorite thing… haha.. This Love is all about making a difference in the world and in the time we have ahead. We are very passionate about what we do and how we do it. We are ready to express our love through our music and actions. We are ready to help bring back love to this world, and what it really means to care. And to the people, follow your dreams, love with all your heat, never ever give up, don’t take no for an answer, pick up your passion whatever it may be and DO NOT put it down, stay true to who you are and get to work, the world needs you.

Filed Under: Interviews, News Tagged With: this love

Taking Back Sunday Live From Orensanz

July 12, 2010 By Bryce Jacobson 1 Comment

Taking Back Sunday have announced the track listing for their upcoming live acoustic CD/DVD, Live From Orensanz. The album is due out August 17th. Check out the album art and track listing below.

Track Listing

1. MakeDamnSure
2. New Again
3. A Decade Under the Influence/Lightning Song
4. One-Eighty By Summer
5. Your Own Disaster
6. My Blue Heaven
7. Carpathia
8. Didn’t See That Coming
9. Set Phasers To Stun
10. Everything Must Go
11. Cure Without The “˜E’ (Cut From The Team)

Filed Under: Album Art, News Tagged With: Taking Back Sunday

Fenix TX Announce European Tour

July 11, 2010 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Its been almost a year since Fenix TX announced that they were going to be working on new material for release this year. We haven’t heard anything since then but the band just announced a European tour with Ultra Violent Lights and Cancer. Will this be the start of things to come for the band? Check out the tour dates below.

Fenix TX Tour Dates

October 1, 2010 Sommercasino, Basel
October 2, 2010 Selig Tanzbar, Chur
October 3, 2010 Dynamo Zurich,
October 6, 2010 Sclachthof, Weisbaden
October 7, 2010 Zwolfzehn, Stuttgart
October 9, 2010 Bei Chez Heinz, Hannover
October 12, 2010 Garage, Saarbrucken
October 14, 2010 Kaiserkeller, Hamburg
October 16, 2010 Haus Spilles, Dusseldorf

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Cancer, Fenix TX, Ultra Violent Lights

The Dangerous Summer Live EP, Peform New Song

July 11, 2010 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

The Dangerous Summer are set to release a live EP titled, Live In Baltimore. The seven track digital EP was recorded by Paul Leavitt (Circa Survive, All Time Low) on January 22, 2010 at the Recher Theatre in MD. Live In Baltimore is due out this Tuesday July 13, and a pre-order is available on iTunes for $5.99.

The Dangerous Summer have been playing a new song titled “Good Things” on their current headlining tour. Check out a video after the jump. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News, Videos Tagged With: The Dangerous Summer

Set Your Goals Post “Gaia Bleeds (Make Way For Man)” Video

July 11, 2010 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Set Your Goals are streaming their new video for “Gaia Bleeds (Make Way For Man)” over on MTV.com. The song comes from the bands latest album, This Will Be The Death Of Us, in stores now.

Filed Under: News, Videos Tagged With: Set Your Goals

Blink 182 Interview From KROQ

July 10, 2010 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Mark and Tom from Blink 182 were recently on the Kevin & Bean show where they talk about working on their new album, their European tour and other random stuff. Check out the interview here.

Blink 182 will be playing their one North American date on Sunday September 26th at the KROQ Epicenter. More information on that here.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Blink 182

Four Year Strong Post New Video, Warped Update

July 10, 2010 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Four Year Strong‘s new video for “It Must Really Suck To Be Four Year Strong Right Now” can be seen below. The band is currently out on Warped Tour rocking it out. Check out a video update from the band below where they visit The Grand Canyon.

Filed Under: News, Videos Tagged With: Four Year Strong

Sky Sailing Stream New Album

July 9, 2010 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Adam Young (Owl City), is streaming the debut album from his early project Sky Sailing. Stream An Airplane Carried Me To Bed on MySpace and pre-order the album on iTunes. The album is due out this Tuesday, July 13th.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: adam-young, Owl City, Sky Sailing

Stream New Track From St. Leonard’s

July 9, 2010 By Max Specht Leave a Comment

Please don’t hesitate to check out this new track entitled “Walk Beside Me” by up and coming band St. Leonard’s. Already with vibes of Coldplay and David Bowie, this band will be looking to make some major moves in the near future, and you should know about them now! Just click the link after the jump to hear the refreshing sounds.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: St. Leonard

MxPx Drummer Yuri Ruley To Retire

July 8, 2010 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

MxPx

MxPx drummer Yuri Ruley has announced that he will be retiring and a farewell to Ruley show will go down in Las Vegas on July 18th where the band will perform their third LP Life In General in its entirety.

After 18 years and nearly 2.5 million records, having helped pave the way for pop-punk music, Ruley will be departing the band in order to focus more on his family life. “With MxPx being a touring band and constantly on the road 9 months out of the year, I knew at some point it would have to come to an end, but the reality of it is a lot harder than I thought it would be. MxPx has been my second family for nearly two decades, but I need to step away to focus on raising my family.”

With Ruley’s departure, MxPx will be scaling back a bit to focus on the completion of their new live DVD/photo book and new EP. Vocalist and bassist Mike Herrera will lean his focus to Tumbledown’s sophomore release and guitarist Tom Wisniewski will continue with MxPx in conjunction with his new full-time job.

“The current economy crisis has affected everyone in some way. For us as a mid-tier band that relies on consistent touring as a steady source of income, we’ve been affected drastically. Touring costs have sky-rocketed and companies have limited their marketing dollars, resulting in most bands being barely able to cover current road costs,” says Wisniewski. “I had no choice but to limit my availability on the road to get a full time job to support my family, but will continue to perform select MxPx dates and continue making music.”

Not to be confused as the band’s final show, the bittersweet performance and farewell to Ruley will be the band’s first appearance into Sin City since September 2008 and will celebrate the near 14-year anniversary of their most notable album release to date, Life In General, with a live full album performance at the Hard Rock Hotel for their faithful fans.

“This will be a night to celebrate both the band and our fans who have supported us and will continue to support us now and in the future,” says Herrera.

The music of MxPx has been known for its ability to unite formerly distinguished fan bases such as the skate/surf community and the punk underground, MxPx used this wide variety of fans as a catalyst for the release of Life In General in 1996, which is notably the bands first mainstream success to date with tracks “Chick Magnet” and “Move To Bremerton,” having launched them to the top of the alternative charts in 1996.

MxPx will continue to perform in festivals and one-off dates with Chris Wilson (The Summer Obsession) sitting in on drums. MxPx All-Stars will embark on a new International tour to Australia in early 2011, which will feature the same line-up from their first tour to Japan and Malaysia – Mike Herrera, Kris Roe of The Ataris and Chris Wilson. Also, stay tuned as long awaited full-length album of MxPx’s side-project, Arthur, featuring all three members and their former tech assistant Neil Hundt will be released later this year.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: MxPx

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